Danielle Taft

Death by Force

In the winter of 1994, a heart-wrenching tragedy struck the city of New Haven, Connecticut, forever altering the lives of a family and shaking the community to its core. On the evening of February 3rd, seven-month-old Danielle Taft, an African American baby girl, was fatally wounded in a senseless act of violence. The infant was inside her home when a barrage of more than a dozen bullets was fired from the street, piercing through the walls of the apartment. The same gunfire that extinguished yo ...Read More

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